Radiator attachment.



G. J. A. TROSTEL.

RADIATOR ATTACHMENT.

APPLlCATION FILED mm. 20, 1915.

1,181,699. Patented May 2,1916.

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GUSTAV J. A. TROSTEL, OF MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN.

RADIATOR ATTACHMENT.

Application filed March 20, 1915.

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, GUSTAV J. A. TROSTEL, a citizen of the United States, and resident of Milwaukee. in the county of Milwaukee and State of \Visconsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Radiator Attachments; and I do hereby declare tliat the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof.

My invention consists in steam and hotwater radiator attachments similar to the one herein particularly set forth with sp'ecific reference to the accompanying drawings and pointed out in the claims of this specification, its object being to provide simple, economical, eflicient and sanitary means for supplying moisture to atmosphere in apartments heated by radiators of the above description. and for collecting dust particles floating in said apartments.

Figure 1 of the drawings represents a perspective view partly in section of an at tachment in accordance with my invention applied to a hot-water radiator, and Fig. 2,

'a partly sectional view of a fragment of the attachment.

Referring by numerals to the drawings, 3 indicates a fragment of a hot-water radiator upon which an attachment in accordance with my invention is supported, but a similar attachment is applicable to;jaf{ ste'a m radiator. it

The attachment comprises a skeletonframe of any suitable construction, a troughlike reservoir in connection with the frame, to extend longitudinally of the same in rear of the radiator below its upper end, and a framecovering of absorbent material that etxcnds into the trough. Burlap, toweling or other textile material will be found suitable for the framecovering.

The frame herein shown comprises end pieces 4 and a series of rods 5, 5', connecting the same. The trough 6 is supported by the end pieces of the frame to which it is attached in any suitable manner, and the frame-covering sheet 7 may be wound at one end on a frame-rod 5 or otherwise detachably secured to the same, its other end being within said trough. \Vater is placed in the trough to be supplied to the framecovering by capillary attraction, its evaporation serving to moisten the surrounding Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 2, 1916.

Serial No. 15,809.

atmosphere. To best serve as a dust-collector, the covering 7 is permitted to sag between the rods 5 of the frame, as herein shown, and the material of said covering is such that it may be readily cleaned by washing whenever necessary or desirable.

The general construction of the attachment is such that its covered frame forms a deflecting canopy over the radiator upon which it is utilized. and its details of construction are such that there is no downward flap of the sheet of absorbent material from which water may drip, and the heated air from the radiator is deflected outward in a purified and moistened condition. The trough 6 may be variously associated with the aforesaid frame without departure from my invention as herein claimed.

I claim:

1. The combination of a frame supportable on a steam or hot water radiator and which consists of end plates and spaced rods connecting the same, the plates being curved upward from the rear of the radiator to ward the front; a water trough associated with the frame in rear of the radiator, and a sheet of absorbent material extending from within the trough over said rods to deflect heated air outward from the radiator in a purified and moistened condition.

2. The combination of a frame supportable on a steam orrhot water radiator and which consists of end plates and spaced rods connecting the same, the plates being curved upward from the rear of the radiator toward the front, a water trough associated with the frame in rear of the radiator, and a sheet of absorbent material extending from within the trough over said rods to the front one of the same on which it is wound, the canopy formed by said frame and sheet of absorbent material serving to deflect heated air outward from the radiator in a purified and moistened condition.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand at Milwaukee, in the county of Milwaukee and State of Wisconsin, in the presence of two witnesses.

GUSTAV J.- a. TROSTEL.

Witnesses HENRY J. \VENZEL, LoUIs RAH). 

